{"product_id":"marx-for-our-times-adventures-and-misadventures-of-a-critique-paperback","title":"Marx for Our Times: Adventures and Misadventures of a Critique - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDaniel Bensaid\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eGregory Elliott\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe end of Soviet Socialism signalled to some observers that the ghost of Marx had finally been laid to rest. But history's refusal to grind to a halt and the global credit crisis that began in 2008 have rekindled interest in capitalism's most persistent critic. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWritten during the mid-nineties, a period of Western complacency and neo-liberal reaction, \u003ci\u003eMarx for Our Times\u003c\/i\u003e is a critical reading of dialectical materialism as a method of resistance. Without denying the contradictory character of Marx's thought, and with a sensitivity to the plurality of theories it has inspired, Daniel Bensaid sets out to discover what in Marx remains dynamic and relevant in our era of accelerating economic change. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMarx's theory emerges, not as a doctrinal system, but as an intellectual tool of social struggle and global transformation in a world where capital continues to dominate social relations.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDaniel Bensaïd\u003c\/b\u003e (1946-2010) taught philosophy at the University of Paris VIII, and was the author of books on Marxism, Walter Benjamin, the French Revolution and Joan of Arc. The Marxists' Internet Archive has a list of obituaries. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eGregory Elliott\u003c\/b\u003e is a member of the editorial collective of Radical Philosophy and author of \u003ci\u003eAlthusser: The Detour of Theory\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLabourism and the English Genius: The Strange Decay of Labour England?\u003c\/i\u003e.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 410\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.98 x 8.6 x 5.42 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 29, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50324615987437,"sku":"9781844673780","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/8918\/9441\/files\/iiHNdVmMu99781844673780.webp?v=1784832743","url":"https:\/\/www.webster.direct\/products\/marx-for-our-times-adventures-and-misadventures-of-a-critique-paperback","provider":"Webster.Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}